LEADER 04115nam 2200697 450 001 9910455836703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-02304-7 010 $a9786612023040 010 $a1-4426-7272-2 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442672727 035 $a(CKB)2420000000003922 035 $a(EBL)3254936 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000290870 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11222151 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000290870 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10247352 035 $a(PQKB)11513036 035 $a(CaBNvSL)thg00600352 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3254936 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4671322 035 $a(DE-B1597)464303 035 $a(OCoLC)944178320 035 $a(OCoLC)999373758 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442672727 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4671322 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11257039 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL202304 035 $a(OCoLC)244768211 035 $a(EXLCZ)992420000000003922 100 $a20160922h20042004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCapitalizing on culture $ecritical theory for cultural studies /$fShane Gunster 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2004. 210 4$dİ2004 215 $a1 online resource (356 p.) 225 1 $aCultural Spaces 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8020-3693-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction: Culture as Commodity -- $t1. Mass Culture and the Commodity Form: Revisiting the Culture Industry Thesis -- $t2. Capitalism, Mimesis, Experience: Legacies of the Commodity Fetish -- $t3. Dreams of Redemption? Adorno, Benjamin, and the Dialectics of Culture -- $t4. From Mass to Popular Culture: From Frankfurt to Birmingham -- $t5. Articulation and the Commodity Form: Rethinking Contemporary Cultural Studies -- $tConcluding Thoughts -- $tNotes -- $tWorks Cited -- $tIndex -- $tBackmatter 330 $aBuilding on the work of Theodor Adorno and Walter Benjamin, Capitalizing on Culture presents an innovative, accessible, and timely exploration of critical theory in a cultural landscape dominated by capital. Despite the increasing prevalence of commodification as a dominant factor in the production, promotion, and consumption of most forms of mass culture, many in the cultural studies field have failed to engage systematically either with culture as commodity or with critical theory. Shane Gunster corrects that oversight, providing attentive readings of Adorno and Benjamin's work in order to generate a complex, non-reductive theory of human experience that attends to the opportunities and dangers arising from the confluence of culture and economics.Gunster juxtaposes Benjamin's thoughts on memory, experience, and capitalism with Adorno's critique of mass culture and modern aesthetics to illuminate the key position that the commodity form plays in each thinker's work and to invigorate the dialectical complexity their writings acquire when considered together. This blending of perspectives is subsequently used to ground a theoretical interrogation of the comparative failure of cultural studies to engage substantively with the effect of commodification upon cultural practices. As a result, Capitalizing on Culture offers a fresh examination of critical theory that will be valuable to scholars studying the intersection of culture and capitalism. 410 0$aCultural spaces. 606 $aPopular culture$xEconomic aspects 606 $aPopular culture$xStudy and teaching 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPopular culture$xEconomic aspects. 615 0$aPopular culture$xStudy and teaching. 676 $a306.4 700 $aGunster$b Shane$01048554 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455836703321 996 $aCapitalizing on culture$92476923 997 $aUNINA